Writing Climate with May Ee Wong and Shawn Hoo
8 Jan 2023 
2-3pm 
National Gallery Singapore, City Hall Wing, Level 2, DBS Singapore Gallery 3 
Free, registration required. How do we address the climate crisis as critics, writers and poets? Where do we place our feelings, whether of anxiety, alarm, despair or optimism? This panel, moderated by Textures Festival’s artistic director Jason Wee, discusses recent writings by May Ee Wong, including her research for the 2023 Helsinki Biennial as part of Critical Environmental Data, as well as her contribution to the book publication, Words of Weather: A Glossary; and Shawn Hoo, who recently published an award-winning chapbook, Of the Florids. Wong and Hoo’s works are examples of climate-sensitive writing, which examine our relationship with the nonhuman and our shared ecologies in different ways.
May Ee Wong is a researcher and writer, currently based at the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University. A member of the Singapore chapter of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Wong has contributed to publications such as Reflect/Refract: Essays on Photography in Singapore and the Contemporary Visual Arts + Culture broadsheet. She received her PhD from the Cultural Studies Graduate Group in the University of California, Davis.
Shawn Hoo is a writer and editor from Singapore. His chapbook Of the Florids, won the 2021 Diode Editions Chapbook Prize. His poems are anthologised in New Singapore Poetries. His translations appear in the Journal of Practice, Research and Tangential Activities (PR&TA) and Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation. He is Assistant Editor at Asymptote, where he curates the Translation Tuesdays showcase.
